Happy Fourth And Happy Canada Day!

Hello everyone!

This is a brief post to all our readers in America and Canada, where the majority of this blog's readers hail from.

First, let me wish a belated Happy Canada Day to all our friends dwelling in the True North.

Second, to my fellow Americans, a Happy Independence Day to you all. We're 233 years as a republic, battered and bruised, but it's still worth fighting for.

Wherever we are in the world, we have a duty to learn about Distributism and put it into practice. With Our Lord's grace and Our Blessed Mother's intercession, we can and will lay the foundation for a Distributist Earth. Let's continue to do so as best we can.

Please keep me and Jovan in your prayers, as we keep you all in ours. May the Savior richly bless you and your loved ones.

Medical Break From Blogging

Friends and neighbors,

I will be taking a short break from blogging here for now. My recent physical, along with a check of my blood sugar levels, has confirmed that I have be struck with Type II diabetes.

In light of this, I will be concentrating on getting better and getting rid of this malady. I ask you in your charity to pray for me, that God grant me the grace to be cured of this.

My colleague, Mr. Weismiller, will post here when he is able.

Thank you all for your prayers, and continue to pray and work for the worthy goal of a Distributist Earth. God speed.

The Obama Regime and "Free Trade"

One of the many broken promises the Obama regime made was to negotiate the notorious NAFTA deal, supposedly in favor of America's beleaguered manufacturing base. But like their predecessors in the Bush II, Clinton and Bush I regimes, Obama et. al. won't renounce the globalist agenda for something as trivial as America's economic health.

From the website Economy In Crisis, editor Dustin Ensinger reports on how many millions of jobs NAFTA has cost the USA. You can read the article HERE.

Distributism believes in "fair trade" rather than "free trade". Those who run both major American political parties don't. Which means we need to continue to get the word out on the ills that "free trade" ideology brings. And then work and pray to throw out all "free trade" supporters from Congress and our state legislatures.

Let's not take "NO" for an answer when it comes to throwing out NAFTA for good.

Tempest Within The "Tea Party"?

Author, columnist and lawyer Christopher A. Ferrara has done written another column regarding the American political scene. The new "Tea Party Movement", getting people concerned about the economic and political malaise in America, may not be all that is cracked up to be. Especially vis-a-vis Traditional Catholics.

For Distributists as well, this new movement may peter out if the angry electorate gets seduced into voting for the same-old same-old again. Fixing pocket-book issues without also fixing social issues won't fix our society for the better. Ferrara points this out clearly in his essay for The Remnant, America's oldest Traditional Catholic bi-weekly. You may read his article HERE.

Let us Distributists continue to learn about what we hold true and promote it to our neighbors. Then act on what we learn within our neighborhoods to end the evils that brought on this Tea Party Movement.

Mexico's Credit Card Crisis

America isn't the only nation dealing with billions and billions of dollars in credit card debt. It's neighbor south of the Rio Grande is having it's problems with it also, on top of it's other problems with swine flu, drug cartels, high taxes, corruption and anti-Catholicism.

Kent Paterson, writing a May 15th article for the left-wing CorpWatch, reports on how the "credit card trap" has ensnared Mexicans as it has millions of others worldwide. He notes that more than 5.1 million credit card accounts there are now financially radioactive. Just like in America, big banks like Banamex - which is tied to the Rockefeller bank giant Citigroup - have done well in profits from credit card interest profits. You can read Mr. Paterson's entire article HERE.

Mexico, like America, can be freed from this fiasco by going Distributist. End the practice of usury. Reign in the big banks' influence, while cutting down big government's as well. Promote credit unions, mutual banks and interest-free local currencies. It will take time, but with God's grace, it can be done.

That will be one less heavy burden on Mexico's back. Like America and the rest of the globe, it needs all the help it can get. Distributism can only do that sad nation good.

Distributism and Fair Trade

From the March 22nd edition of the blog Modern Distributism, the author "Jesse" writes about the link between Distributist Thought and the American Founding Father's views on trade. It is a short but well-written article, which you can read HERE.

Our politicians in Washington are as addicted to "free trade" ideology as they are to globalism. For the sake of our country and it's Distributist future, let's all do what we can to end their addiction.

Obama and Credit Unions

With the brouhaha still brewing over the Bankers Bailout of a few months ago, as well as the problems with the credit crunch and an unaudited Federal Reserve System, one would think that the Obama regime would turn to workable alternatives to Big Banking.

Or at least to encourage them among businesses and others looking to strengthen their local economies, as we Distributists would.

But the Obama White House is in the same mold as the ones before it - beholden to global government and globalist financiers.

The left-wing journal The Free Press has an article, dated May 12th, by co-authors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman. It explains, in part, why the Obama regime won't look to credit unions for new ideas to get the economy revived. You may read the article HERE.

Let's promote Distributism in part by promoting doing our financial affairs at credit unions. You've be giving your local community a healthy shot in the arm.